“Hard to shake…. a fine entry in cinema’s history of tortured male youth”

—Filmmaker Magazine

Pushing cinema vérité to its raw emotional limits, this
hard-bitten portrait of Karachi’s underclass is also an ode to the
beauty and anguish of childhood that has earned it comparisons to
François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. For their extraordinary
debut feature, Mullick and Tariq traveled to Pakistan to raise
awareness about the work of aging humanitarian Abdul Satar Edhi,
the man behind the nation’s largest philanthropic organization.
Immersing themselves in the lives of the countless runaways
crowding Edhi’s orphanages, they emerged with this heartbreaking
chronicle of poverty and street life seen through the eyes of the
young and vulnerable, with a lyricism that honors the resilience of
its subjects.